OWWA grantees grateful for scholarships

FOR 21-year-old Saint Louis University Management Accounting graduate Shyla Dumapi, her scholarship from the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration has helped her pursue her dreams.

Dumapi is one among the 16 Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) and Overseas Filipino Worker Dependent Scholarship Program (ODSP) grantees that marched on the stage to receive their diploma making their parents, mostly migrant workers abroad doubly proud of their achievements.

In her batch this year, there was a summa cum laude, a magna cum laude and three cum laude graduates joining the also stellar performances in class standing of previous scholars since the program's inception in 2005.

Another scholar, this time an EDSP grantee, Gerome Dado also of SLU finished as a cum laude in his accountancy course.

Dado said with the scholarship grant, he was able to send himself to college to cover for his various needs despite the meager earnings of his father, an electrician in Bahrain, who also pays for the tuition of his siblings.

“Yung scholarship hindi naman para lang sa mahirap lang at sa matalino lang meron din para sa mga masipag as long as they have the will and determination to push for their dreams,” he said.

OWWA administrator Carmelita Dimzon said the ODSP is a program aimed at providing scholarships for OFWs only earning $400 or less than compared to other migrant workers.

All over the country, the scholarships according to the administrator are big help in augmenting the income of OFWs which some think are high but are actually just enough and sometimes even fall short for all needs of the family.

She also encouraged sons and daughters of OFWs not to hesitate in going to their regional offices to seek benefits and other assistance they can avail just by being members of OWWA.

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